Dear Juno, I think with you did with your child, carrying it to term and giving it to a woman who will love him and take care of him, was the right thing to do. You were not ready to be a mother and Bleaker was most certainly not ready to be a father. You weren’t even sure what kind of relationship you had with Bleaker, if any. It was brave of you to walk into that abortion clinic by yourself and even more brave of you to make the decision to walk out and go through with the pregnancy. If you hadn’t walked out, that would’ve been fine too but the important thing is that you had a choice, a choice that was given to you by the law.
Finally, by staying pregnant, you learned and experienced things about life and those things made you mature a lot and most importantly, you made a woman happy. You gave her what she had always wished for and by doing that, you gave your baby things that you could not have given him if you had kept him.
If I was in your situation, pregnant as a teenager, I would have gone through with the pregnancy, like you did, but I would have kept the baby, only because of how I was raised. I come from a very religious family and although I don’t agree with all the rules that the church has, they are still etched in my brain. I am not saying that I shun abortion, just that in my religion, they prepare the girls from a young age to be wives and most importantly, mothers and I also come from a big family so I like kids and would not give mine away no matter how young I am.
Personally, I am pro-choice and I believe that a woman should have the option to end her pregnancy if that is what she wishes. Also, other people, especially men, shouldn’t be able to decide what a woman can and cannot do with her body, that is a matter of privacy. It is much safer to have a choice than to have only one option because otherwise people (women) would hurt themselves by trying to stimulate a miscarriage or unwanted babies would be left and abandoned in alleys and garbage cans because their mother didn’t want it in the first place. Now, pro-life people would argue that if a woman was not ready or did not want to have a child then she should not have been careless enough to get pregnant in the first place, but it does not work that way. Unplanned pregnancies do happen, unwanted or not; the condom breaks or the girl forgets to take her pill the day before, etc. These things can happen to anyone and you, of course, are proof of that.
I think with you did with your child, carrying it to term and giving it to a woman who will love him and take care of him, was the right thing to do. You were not ready to be a mother and Bleaker was most certainly not ready to be a father. You weren’t even sure what kind of relationship you had with Bleaker, if any. It was brave of you to walk into that abortion clinic by yourself and even more brave of you to make the decision to walk out and go through with the pregnancy. If you hadn’t walked out, that would’ve been fine too but the important thing is that you had a choice, a choice that was given to you by the law.
Finally, by staying pregnant, you learned and experienced things about life and those things made you mature a lot and most importantly, you made a woman happy. You gave her what she had always wished for and by doing that, you gave your baby things that you could not have given him if you had kept him.
If I was in your situation, pregnant as a teenager, I would have gone through with the pregnancy, like you did, but I would have kept the baby, only because of how I was raised. I come from a very religious family and although I don’t agree with all the rules that the church has, they are still etched in my brain. I am not saying that I shun abortion, just that in my religion, they prepare the girls from a young age to be wives and most importantly, mothers and I also come from a big family so I like kids and would not give mine away no matter how young I am.
Personally, I am pro-choice and I believe that a woman should have the option to end her pregnancy if that is what she wishes. Also, other people, especially men, shouldn’t be able to decide what a woman can and cannot do with her body, that is a matter of privacy. It is much safer to have a choice than to have only one option because otherwise people (women) would hurt themselves by trying to stimulate a miscarriage or unwanted babies would be left and abandoned in alleys and garbage cans because their mother didn’t want it in the first place. Now, pro-life people would argue that if a woman was not ready or did not want to have a child then she should not have been careless enough to get pregnant in the first place, but it does not work that way. Unplanned pregnancies do happen, unwanted or not; the condom breaks or the girl forgets to take her pill the day before, etc. These things can happen to anyone and you, of course, are proof of that.